Application for GSoC and proposal

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Friday 16 March 2012 21:27:38 Alexander Rössler wrote:
> Hello kdeveleop-developers,
> 
> I'm an electronic engineering student form Austria and I like to apply for
> kdevelop on GSoC. I am using kdevelop as my preferred development
> environment for C and so I would like to help you improving kdevelop at
> GSoc. I have a lot of experience with Qt/C++, KDE and Linux and I am also
> OpenSUSE ambassador for Austria. As you can see, I'm not new to the open
> source community. If you like to see my current Qt project visit:
> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/PhyxCalc?content=149161
> 
> I like your GSoC ideas for kdevelop, but I have following to add: When I
> developed PhyxCalc I came to one point, where I had to deploy my
> application for several Linux desktops. As I am a OpenSUSE user, I knew the
> Open Build Service very well. So I deployed my application via the build
> service, however, it was quite a pain to get everything working. New
> developers, especially developers coming from Windows, might be deterred of
> the deployment of applications on Linux (without the build service it is
> even more a pain). So I found this on the internet:
> http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/2890 This plugin is not developed
> any more (and wasn't finished anyway), but I think it would be nice if
> kdevelop would have such a plugin. Especially for small projects this would
> be perfect, it would make deploying applications for Linux easy (and even
> improve the success of the open source community).

  For what it's worth, i was one of two developers who worked on Project 
Bretzn, so if you need some help with it i'd be more than happy to assist :)

> Regards
> Alexander Rössler (aka Strahlex)
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